The biggest outside influence on my academic success has been my family. I have been blessed with supportive and encouraging parents who guided and pushed me to where I am today. What's more, my parents have different styles of teaching that have proven helpful in different ways. My mother was always the one to go to for help with homework and advice for future plans. My father, on the other hand, was a voice of encouragement; he would always tell me he was proud of me, which kept me going.
My parents expected me to do well in school, and that early expectation has stayed with me even today. It was required that I graduate from high school and college, and my parents essentially expected me to continue on through graduate school. In fact, when my husband asked my father for my hand in marriage, my father made him promise I would complete graduate school. My parents taught me how to set high goals for myself; goals I would be proud to achieve. They never let me take the easy way out of things and only celebrated my big accomplishments. My parents taught me the value of hard work, morals, and dedication. They are both hard working individuals who I strive to emulate.
My mother influenced my decision to enter the mental health field. After years in high school and college believing I was going to move to the city and run a resort, I found myself stuck. I realized the career path I had chosen was unfulfilling. After stepping back and seeing the amazing combination of hard work and joy my mom gets from her job, I hoped for the same. She helped me search for a new path, and that's when I stumbled across therapy. I have my mother to thank for my being here, and she didn't have to do anything to motivate me aside from work hard and love her job. Seeing how fulfilled she is as a registered nurse helped me set my own goal and change my life. If it weren't for my mother, I might have continued on with my hospitality career path, accepting a job I might not particularly like but resigned myself to believing I had come too far to change my mind. School did not help me set my career path and academic success; rather, my father encouraged dedication and goal setting, while my mother became my role model and showed me the importance of personal success and a sense of career fulfillment.
My parents expected me to do well in school, and that early expectation has stayed with me even today. It was required that I graduate from high school and college, and my parents essentially expected me to continue on through graduate school. In fact, when my husband asked my father for my hand in marriage, my father made him promise I would complete graduate school. My parents taught me how to set high goals for myself; goals I would be proud to achieve. They never let me take the easy way out of things and only celebrated my big accomplishments. My parents taught me the value of hard work, morals, and dedication. They are both hard working individuals who I strive to emulate.
My mother influenced my decision to enter the mental health field. After years in high school and college believing I was going to move to the city and run a resort, I found myself stuck. I realized the career path I had chosen was unfulfilling. After stepping back and seeing the amazing combination of hard work and joy my mom gets from her job, I hoped for the same. She helped me search for a new path, and that's when I stumbled across therapy. I have my mother to thank for my being here, and she didn't have to do anything to motivate me aside from work hard and love her job. Seeing how fulfilled she is as a registered nurse helped me set my own goal and change my life. If it weren't for my mother, I might have continued on with my hospitality career path, accepting a job I might not particularly like but resigned myself to believing I had come too far to change my mind. School did not help me set my career path and academic success; rather, my father encouraged dedication and goal setting, while my mother became my role model and showed me the importance of personal success and a sense of career fulfillment.